Daniel Guay

Daniel Guay was President of Haiti from 6 December 1950, succeeding Paul Magloire.

Biography
Daniel Guay was born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, and he served in the Haitian Army as a non-commissioned officer. Guay rose to the rank of Major in 1946, and he formed an officers' cabal that wanted to overthrow the USSR-leaning government. On 6 December 1950, in the 1950 Haitian coup d'etat, Guay seized power with the help of the military, and he became a dictator. Haiti moved away from its USSR leaning and joined the Non-Aligned Movement, removing Haiti from the struggle between left and right in the Cold War.